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dbarnes
dbarnes

Reputation: 1833

building a menu in html with content on the right

JsFiddle: Here

So I've run into two problems and I can't seem to figure out the solutions. one: I need the content div's min height to be the height of the menu(I'd prefer not to use the min-height rule) two: when the content div is larger than the menu I need the menu's height to be the size of the content div.

HTML: 

<div class="container">
    <div class="menu">
        <ul>
            <li>Menu1</li>
            <li>Menu2</li>
            <li>Menu3</li>
            <li>Menu4</li>
        </ul>
    </div> 
    <div class="content">content</div>
</div>
<div class="container">
    <div class="menu">
        <ul>
            <li>Menu1</li>
            <li>Menu2</li>
            <li>Menu3</li>
            <li>Menu4</li>
        </ul>
    </div> 
    <div class="content">content2</div>
</div>

CSS:

.container{
    padding: 5px 0;
    clear: both;
}
.menu{
   float:left;
    background-color: green;
}
    .menu ul{
        list-style-type: none;
        padding: 0;
        margin:0;
    }
.content{
    background-color: yellow;
    padding-left: 50px;
}

EDIT:

After messing around on jsFiddle I have come up with This, does anyone here seem to have a problem? Essentially it uses display table and display table row...

HTML:

<div class="table">
    <div class="row">
        <div class="cell first">
            asdfasdf
        </div>
                <div class="cell second">
            Content 1 
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="table">
    <div class="row">
        <div class="cell first">
            asdfasdf
        </div>
                <div class="cell second">
            Cotent 2
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

CSS: 

.table{
    display table;
    padding-top: 20px;
}

.row{
    display: table-row;
}

.first{
    background-color:green;
}

.second{
        background-color:yellow;
    width: 100%;
}
.cell{
    display:table-cell;
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 60

Answers (2)

myajouri
myajouri

Reputation: 3124

If you want both columns to have equal heights, try the one true layout method:

Adjusted JSFiddle here. 

/* CSS */

.container{
    padding: 5px 0;
    clear: both;
    overflow: hidden;
}

.menu, .content {
    padding-bottom: 999999px;
    margin-bottom: -999999px;
}

.menu{
   float:left;
    background-color: green;
}
    .menu ul{
        list-style-type: none;
        padding: 0;
        margin:0;
    }
.content{
    background-color: yellow;
    padding-left: 50px;
}

Upvotes: 1

Paulie_D
Paulie_D

Reputation: 115342

Min-content size....It's a matter of floats the menu and the content and apprppriate widths

NB. Equal height for the menu when the content is a different discussion with various solutions.

JSFiddle Demo (rough as I'd tidy up and use `box-sizing

.container{
    padding: 5px 0;
    clear: both;
     background-color: yellow;
    overflow:hidden;
    margin-bottom:10px;
}
.menu{
   float:left;
    background-color: green;
    width:10%;
}
    .menu ul{
        list-style-type: none;
        padding: 0;
        margin:0;
    }
.content{
 float:left;
    width:80%;
    margin-left:10px;
}

Upvotes: 0

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